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Construction of Ships...is there any way to increase the speed ? other than upgrading Shipyards and adding more population to a planet, i dont see a way how i could get my ships faster...
Here are all the ways to build ships faster:
1) Take Hardy Industrialist racial ability
2) Put racial points into Construction
3) Research Space Yard Construction (or whatever its called)
4) Fill up large and huge planets of your atmosphere with population.
5) Emergency Build (careful though, cause after 10 turns build rate drops to 25%)
6) Set up a retrofit chain. Design a series of upgrades for your normal ship designs. If your final ship X costs 10000 minerals, copy it and remove components so that this new ship hull (X A) costs 6667 minerals or more. Build the prototype X A, and then retrofit it to ship X after it is built. If you make 2 prototype hulls, then you could have the first in the series cost 4445 minerals or more. Call it ship X B. Build ship X B. Retrofit to ship X A. Then retrofit to ship X. While the ship is being retrofitted, you can build another ship X B. You cannot retrofit a ship to a new design unless the cost (of each resource type, taken separately) is less than 50% more than the cost of the ship being retrofitted. So, use this formula for each step in the retrofit series:
Base ship cost = 1.5x, where x= the cost of the next ship in the series.
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then, is there actually a reason why EACH race hates me ? i dont know why, i always send a pleading general message, i ask about nap's and so on, but suddenly a race declars war, i cant seem to stay at peace with at least ONE race
I usually play in a Large Cluster universe with a medium ammount of players, and om not an offensive player, i try to get satelittes onto each Warp-Gate to secure myself, im nearly never attacking enemys, so why do they declare war ?
When your score reaches a certain percent (I think 300) of the score of the 2nd place empire, then you trigger the Mega Evil Empire state (MEE). While in this state, all AIs will declare war on you and will not make peace.
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Another, more important thing.
I downloaded all those things needed for the Babylon 5 Mod, i had about 10 .zip, unzipped them all into one folder and copied it into my se4-folder, but when i launch the se4-mod-chooser i always get quite some errors with the mod, something about that some things are wrong with the settings.txt it tells me that different parts are missing, so what can i do ? i sure i downloaded everything, except those 2 files names xx21-22.zip and 22beta.zip something like that, because both of them werent avaiable, i always got a 404 error
If someone can help me out, would be great.
You can aswell email me those zip's at Chris_Finke@web.de
Look at the folder stucture for normal SEIV. Copy it when compiling the B5Mod. Your new folders should look something like this (I left out most of the folders):
C:\Space Empires IV\
--------\Data\
--------\Pictures\
----------------\Components\
----------------\Facilities\
----------------\Races\
--------\Babylon 5 Mod\
----------------\Data\
----------------\Pictures\
--------------------\Components\
--------------------\Facilities\
--------------------\Races\
------------------------\Centauri\
------------------------\Earth Alliance\
------------------------\etc.
Hope that helps!
[ 24 March 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]